Bill Maher: The GOP: divorced from reality

[sufrommich]

"Look, I get it, "real America." After an eight-year run of controlling the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, this latest election has you feeling like a rejected husband. You've come home to find your things out on the front lawn -- or at least more things than you usually keep out on the front lawn. You're not ready to let go, but the country you love is moving on. And now you want to call it a whore and key its car.

That's what you are, the bitter divorced guy whose country has left him -- obsessing over it, haranguing it, blubbering one minute about how much you love it and vowing the next that if you cannot have it, nobody will.

But it's been almost 100 days, and your country is not coming back to you. She's found somebody new. And it's a black guy.
The healthy thing to do is to just get past it and learn to cherish the memories. You'll always have New Orleans and Abu Ghraib."

Lol.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-maher24-2009apr24,0,927819.story

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. kickeroo

[sufrommich]

2. I give him props for one of the best analogies ever. nt

[Atman]

3. K&R

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[SurfingScientist]

4. Thanks!!! K&R!!! I LOVE Bill Maher!!!

He is fantastic at using every crap people ever pulled against them in the most creative and unexpected way!!!

And he is damn right. :toast:

[sufrommich]

5. I like him too. I think you have to be one of those people who

loves snark to begin with (which I am) to really enjoy his stuff.

[SurfingScientist]

11. How did you guess ;-) ???

Nice to meet you sufrommich !!!

:hug:

[pleah]

6. K&R

[lame54]

7. Or Jon Stewart...

paraphrasing

"Meet me at camera 3 - I think you are confusing fascism with losing. I've been there - it's supposed to taste like a shit sandwich"

[malaise]

8. Very well said

Get over it Rushicans. You lost big time.

[Deep13]

9. They should pay us alimony. nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

49. DANG! You got that one right!

I've been trying to figure out how to make a bumper sticker out of "Repubs should pay triple taxes"....

[me b zola]

10. Ssssssssssspot ON

:applause:

[nichomachus]

12. The only problem is that

a significant number of Americans are also divorced from reality.

Never forget that 58,000,000 people voted to put Sarah Fucking Palin one 73-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency.

All I'm saying is we shouldn't get too smug. That thin margin between Palin and Obama could reverse itself in the blink of an eye, given the right propaganda.

[sufrommich]

15. Well, it earned him a death threat from this freeper:

To: Zakeet
Bill Maher...7.62mm ..head shot.

Have a bad day Bill.
28 posted on Friday, April 24, 2009 11:58:12 AM by gitmogrunt (OXI...)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236929/posts

They seem hell bent on proving his point over there. I really think there is a sea change going on in this country right now, the right gets crazier and more and more sane voters move away from them.I don't expect a great republican victory until they sweep the unhinged out of their party.

[defendandprotect]

35. You also have to consider that we really can't veryify how many voters . . .

actually voted for McCain -- and I'm thinking that Obama probably had a much larger
win.

We've had electronic voting on computers with us since the late 1960's -- coincidentally

about the time we passed the Voting Rights Act!

And, these computers gave them the ability to steal larger and larger blocs of votes from

greater distances.

I think every Repug win is in question -- not just 2000 and 2004 -- but back to

Nixon/Humphrey!

Granted we've also had a lot of right-wing propaganda over decades which was largely

unresponded to by Democrats --

and corporate-media helping all of this along!

[me b zola]

13. Everyone needs the chance to read this

:)

[Supersedeas]

14. New Orleans, Abu Gharaib, Bank Deregulation and Gitmo -- the Republican legacy

May we never EVER forget.

[Lorien]

16. The GOP was an unemployed abusive alcoholic husband who stole money out

of his wife's purse...and now he's surprised that she refuses to take it anymore!

[K8-EEE]

17. haha, check out the freeper response:

OMG in response to this article they post "guy who just got dumped" type unhinged rants!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236929/posts#comment


NO, it’s the L.A. Times that is divorced from reality, that refuses to accept the truth.

What would they define as a “healthy party”??? Perhaps one that supports abortion, flinging open the border, granting citizenship for the illegals, promotes gay marriage and kowtows to Obama and the socialists?

Nope, we don’t wanna be the “DemocratLite” Party!

We ARE the opposition, we ARE upset, and we WILL take back our country!

ENOUGH OF THE RINOS!!!
ENOUGH OF “REACHING ACROSS THE AISLE”!!!!
ENOUGH OF COMPROMISING OUR PRINCIPLES!!!!!

It’s time for REAL change, REAL conservatism and REAL leadership!

We conservatives haven’t lost our minds, on the contrary, we are thinking CLEARER than we ever have been before!


:rofl:

[sufrommich]

18. With a Palin/Bachmann 2012 sig line to boot!

12 posted on Friday, April 24, 2009 11:51:16 AM by wk4bush2004 (PALIN-BACHMANN, 2012......."GIVE ESTROGEN A CHANCE!!!!")
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[ProgressiveFool]

19. wow, I actually lasted reading about 6 posts over there...

that's a record! :dunce:

[Pacifist Patriot]

46. Six more than I can stomach. You're one strong Dem!

[d_b]

20. lol

"We conservatives haven’t lost our minds, on the contrary, we are thinking CLEARER than we ever have been before!"


AHHHHHHH!!!!1

[SemperEadem]

21. the delusional are loathe to give up their delusions

"We conservatives haven’t lost our minds, on the contrary, we are thinking CLEARER than we ever have been before!"

and that 'clear headed thinking' is what will forever divide your party and keep you from ever gaining power ever again.

If they don't like it, they are welcomed to move to another country--like russia or somewhere in eastern europe.

[NewJeffCT]

26. I hope they go even further to the right next time

Palin-Jindal - the back to the Stone Age ticket.

oops, maybe not, the world didn't exist during the Stone Age according to them...

[Rectangle]

33. My, my, my...struck a nerve, didn't we???

:eyes: :crazy:

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

22. Naaaaiiilled it

[valerief]

23. Oh, that's so evil and so funny!!!!

:rofl:

[sufrommich]

24. Please leave a comment in the comment section if you can,

The Freepers are there and foaming at the mouth over this Op Ed.Too funny.

[JohnnyCougar]

25. Holy fuck

That is funny.

[burning rain]

27. Hard to believe they were ever married in the first place.

*

[jimlup]

28. And 9/11

These ass clowns LIHOP

[santamargarita]

29. I like the front lawn part, they are hicks

:applause:

[DCKit]

30. Duh. Next, he'll be telling U.S. it wasn't an amicable divorce. Double Duh. n/t

[opihimoimoi]

31. K&R good post...."and its a black guy".....The po things...They are so leaderless

They cannot control further damage from their own troops...Palin, Bachmann, and Coleman.....all runnign around fucking with the GOP Image...

Rush, Sean, and Oreally add to the damage.....and still do...daily....

The GOP is In Its Final Death Throes....

[President Decider]

32. As funny as Maher's analogy is .... the accuracy of it is remarkable!

[Babel_17]

34. He crossed the writers picket line, he dated Ann Coulter

and then there's the episode I'll never forget.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2828256&mesg_id=2828256

[jonestonesusa]

36. Big K & R!!

Will it be Sarah Palin-around-with-terrorists in 2012?

One can only hope. She's no RINO!

[firedupdem]

37. Love it! Perfect! n/t

[Matariki]

38. omg. funny!

thanks for posting this

[BrklynLiberal]

39. Pretty good show tonight. Panel was excellent...Dr. Dean was in the house!!

[suede1]

40. Fantastic! Funniest op ed ever! K&R

[Mithreal]

41. K&R. nt

[ACTION BASTARD]

42. Bump for the funny. Bill Maher delivers!

[seemslikeadream]

43. She's found somebody new. And it's a black guy.

:rofl:

[Zambero]

50. And to top it all off:

Her friends and neighbors also like the new guy, and would not hesitate to tell her she's made a much better choice this time around.

[onestepforward]

44. K & R!

[DeSwiss]

45. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"But it's been almost 100 days, and your country is not coming back to you. She's found somebody new. And it's a black guy."

:rofl:

K&R!!!

[mnhtnbb]

47. Howard Dean (on the panel) was smart and articulate, as always.

HBO replays Bill Maher numerous times during the week. Worth catching it.

[DFW]

48. What the extremist right hasn't gotten yet:

"The thing that you people out of power have to remember is that the people in power are not secretly plotting against you. They don't need to. They already beat you in public."

All dem soshalists and kommanists---aren't. They're just ordinary Americans who have come to their senses.

[question everything]

51. Kick. This was the best line of his "New Rules"

[Geek_Girl]

52. OMG that's awsome

I love that!!